Lab Members

Current Members

Alberto Bosque, PhD, MBA Associate Professor Alberto Bosque, PhD, MBA, joined the GW Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Tropical Medicine University in November 2016 as an Assistant Professor. Using his expertise in cell biology and signal transduction, Dr. Bosque pursues to elucidate the mechanisms behind HIV persistence. His studies are focused in using in vitro primary cell models of latency that mimic the latent reservoir in HIV patients, with the goal to accelerate the discovery process towards novel therapeutic interventions to eradicate HIV.

Elyse McMahon, PhD Post-doctoral Associate Elyse McMahon graduated with a BS in Wildlife and Fishery Sciences from the Pennsylvania State University in 2014. Following this, she completed an MS in Biology at Bucknell University in 2017 where she studied the impact of social isolation as a chronic stressor on telomere degradation and the protective effects of oxytocin. She then went to the Pennsylvania State University where she obtained a PhD in Ecology through the Biobehavioral Health Department in 2022 studying the interactions between the neuroendocrine, autonomic, innate and adaptive immune and gut microbiome systems. Since joining the Bosque lab in June of 2022, she has built on skills previously obtained and is focusing on how retinoids can be used to enhance immune mediated killing of HIV infected CD4 T cells.

Carissa S. Holmberg Post-doctoral Associate Carissa Stover graduated with a BS in Biology from Wichita State University in 2017. She did a postbac at NIH for a year and then entered GW’s IBS program in 2019. She joined the Bosque Lab in 2020 where she is currently studying the role of sex hormones in HIV latency. HIVPeCoT-TP T32 trainee.

Jonathan Lochner Graduate Student Jonathan Lochner graduated with a B.S. in Chemical Biomolecular Engineering and Biochemistry from The University of Tennessee - Knoxville in 2021. After graduating, he was a Research Assistant at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center and then entered GW's IBS program in 2023. He is currently studying the effect that latency reversal agents have on the expression of MHC-I molecules on CD4+ T cells.

Claudia Melo Graduate Student Claudia Melo graduated with a BS in Biology and BA in Chemistry from Brooklyn College in 2021. She joined the IBS program at GW in 2021 and joined the Bosque Lab in 2022. She is currently studying the role of broadly neutralizing antibodies (bNabs) in inducing memory-like NK cells. HIVPeCoT-TP T32 trainee.

Weisheng Wang, MD, PhD Research Associate Weisheng Wang earned his M.D and PhD degrees in China, and was a board-certified attending physician before he moved to the United States in 2005. He did a one-year postdoc training at the Brain Tumor Institute at the Cleveland Clinic. Before joining the Bosque lab, we worked at the Medical Center of Georgetown University for about 15 years as a research specialist and a senior scientist. On March 2022, he joined the Bosque lab where he is currently studying murine models for HIV. Outside of the lab, he likes to spend time with his family and he loves sports. He enjoys volunteer coaching for youth volleyball teams and he is a volunteer captain for the USTA Junior tennis team.